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I went to a Catholic grammar school (yes, I guess that's a pun there). We didn't learn any science, but we sure learned our grammar. Including diagramming sente

I went to a Catholic grammar school (yes, I guess that's a pun there). We didn't learn any science, but we sure learned our grammar. Including diagramming sentences (I don't remember all those refinements, though). The process is pretty helpful. I find that book reader to be very unappealing, and for this Fremont Older book, which I'm currently writing about: https://archive.org/details/myownstory00oldegoog https://archive.org/details/myownstory00oldegoog I downloaded the PDF. I think they should have done that here, too and extracted some actual diagrams.

dwhitney 2y ago
I learned how to diagram sentences in college. It was eye-opening, and I wish I had learned it sooner.
- bluSCALE4 2y ago
  I plan on going through the book with my soon to be 4th grade son. Hopefully it's a good book.
- gertlex 2y ago
  I remember diagramming being covered once, maybe 5th grade, and not sure it was addressed again. I seem to have ended up with a very strong "sense" for correct english (though I know some parts where I'm weak; and also my online "post a comment" style stuff ends up full of shorthands...). I presume that my "being good at catching grammatical weirdness" comes from several schoolyears learning German, and being a voracious bookworm as a kid. Curious if that sort of situation is also the case for others who weren't heavily taught diagramming but still feel they ended up being really good at correct written English.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Defo. I had always had a good implicit knowledge of grammar in my L1, due to early and extensive reading, so synthesising "correct" utterances was never an issue. However, it wasn't until I started learning an L2, and had to explicitly revisit even simple structures, that the light went on and from then on I was able to easily analyse my L1 as well.

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I went to a Catholic grammar school (yes, I guess that's a pun there). We didn't learn any science, but we sure learned our grammar. Including diagramming sente

by AlbertCory 2y ago

dwhitney 2y ago
I learned how to diagram sentences in college. It was eye-opening, and I wish I had learned it sooner.
- bluSCALE4 2y ago
  I plan on going through the book with my soon to be 4th grade son. Hopefully it's a good book.
- gertlex 2y ago
  I remember diagramming being covered once, maybe 5th grade, and not sure it was addressed again. I seem to have ended up with a very strong "sense" for correct english (though I know some parts where I'm weak; and also my online "post a comment" style stuff ends up full of shorthands...). I presume that my "being good at catching grammatical weirdness" comes from several schoolyears learning German, and being a voracious bookworm as a kid. Curious if that sort of situation is also the case for others who weren't heavily taught diagramming but still feel they ended up being really good at correct written English.
  - 082349872349872 2y ago
    Defo. I had always had a good implicit knowledge of grammar in my L1, due to early and extensive reading, so synthesising "correct" utterances was never an issue. However, it wasn't until I started learning an L2, and had to explicitly revisit even simple structures, that the light went on and from then on I was able to easily analyse my L1 as well.